Table of Contents

Crossing the Borderline
The Disembededness of Everyday Life
The Genesis of Othering
The Attractions of Hiatus
The Vertigo of Late Modernity
Turbo-Charged Capitalism
Blurring the Binary Vision
Bulimia: Not Exclusion But Inclusion/Exclusion
Crossing the Borderline: Against the Dual City Thesis
The Functional Underclass
The Boundaries of Bulimia
The Precariousness of Inclusion
The Crime and the Narrowing of Differences
The Focus Upon the Underclass
Globalisation and the Generation of Domestic and Global Discontent
The Sociology of Vindictiveness and the Criminology of Transgression
Fear of Falling
The Change in the Focus of Reward
Towards a Criminology of Transgression
Humiliation and Rebellion
The Satisfactions of Transgression
The Humiliation of Exclusion
Edgework, Ontological Security and Utopia
From Turf War to Real War
Hip Hop Across the Borders
Chaos and the Coordinates of Order
Chaos and Identity in the Twenty First Century
The Undermining of the Meritocracy
Changes in the Perceived Class Structure
The Shift to Identity Politics
Antecedents of the Cultural Shift
The War Against the Poor
The Meta-Humiliation of Poverty
The Decline of Work and The Invisible Servant
The Declining Centrality of Work?
Getting the Poor to Work: The US Experiment
Redemption Through Labour
Including the Excluded
Welfare: From Relief to Irresponsibility
Early Morning in Harlem
The Invisible Worker
The Invisible Servant
Entering the Zone of Humiliation
Service as a Feudal Relationship
The Invisible Poor in a Classless Society
Guilt and Middle Class Solipsism
Social Inclusion and Redemption through Labour
New Labour: New Inclusionism
The Welfare State: Not the Solution but the Problem
The Will to Win
Many′s a Slip Twixt Cup and Lip: New Labour′s Obsessional Neurosis
The Moral Panic Over Teenage Pregnancy
Rationality and the Middle Classes
From Structure to Agency: Beyond the Weak Thesis
Social and Political Exclusion
Crossing the Border: To These Wet and Windy Shores
The Social Construction of the Immigrant
To These Wet and Windy Shores
Two Modes of Entry
Over Twenty Years Ago: The Riots of 1981
Crime and the Demonisation of the Other
The Roots of Othering
The Final Phase: The Irony of Assimilation
The Roots of the Disturbances
The Riots in Bradford, Burnley and Oldham
Postscript: The Riots in France 2005
Terrorism and Anti-Terrorism Terrorism: The Banality of Evil
Proxy Wars and the Defeat of the Soviet Union
Occidentalism
The House of Bush and the House of Saudi
The Two Contradictions: Inside and Outside the First World
Symmetry and Differences
The Beatification of Evil
The Logic of the West
The Photographs from Abu Grahib
Love Was All They Had to Set Against Them
The London Bombing and the Banality of Evil
The Dialectics of Othering and the Problem of Evil
The Generation of Anger and the Frustration of Normality
The Othering of the Otherer
The Summoning Up of Violence
Violence and the Metaphor of War
Elsewhere: On the D Train to Manhattan
Urban Somnambulism: Elsewhere in a Brooklyn Deli
The Exclusive Community
The Organic Community
Othering in the Ardoyne: The Holy Cross School
The Fallacy of Privileging Community
Enter Virtual Reality: Elsewhere in the East End
Stars, Celebrities: Guiding Narratives for a Shifting World
The Cronus Effect and Broken Narratives
The Deterritorialisation of Community and the Rise of the Virtual
Elsewhere in an Elevator: John Jay College, October 2004
The Rise of Multi-Media and the Uninvited Guest
From Generalised Other to Generalised Elsewhere
From Community to Public Sphere
The Community in Late Modern Times
Conclusion: Roads to Elsewhere
Affirmative and Transformative Inclusion
The Politics of Redistribution
Towards a New Politics of Inclusion
The Politics of Deconstruction
Othering and Community
The Banishment of Unreason
Rationality, the New Media and the Public Sphere
The Porous Community
Hyperpluralism and the Elusive Other
Towards a Politics of Diversity

About the Author

Jock Young, one of the foremost criminologists of our time, is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Centre for Criminology at Middlesex University. His work and theories have had a significant influence on the shape of criminology, sociology and politics.